| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Kotar/ Kautar/ Kusor" | Syria | A god Blacksmiths |
| Supreme god name "Kronos" | Pre - Greek | Archetypal fertility god. He is of unknown origin but is the son of the earth mother GAIA and the sky god OURANOS, whom he usurped after castrating him. His consort is RHEA. So as not to suffer a similar fate to his father he swallowed all his children except ZEUS who was kept from him by a ruse. Zeus eventually hurled Kronos into Tartaros, the abyss in which all the TITANS were confined. He was celebrated in the Greek harvest festival of kronia which equalled the Roman saturnalia. During Hellenic times he was the supreme god at Byblos [Syria]. He is depicted on coinage of Antiochus IV (175-164 BC) nude, leaning on a scepter, with three pairs of wings, two spread and one folded.... |
| Goddess name "Kubaba" | Anatolian / northern Syrian | Mother goddess. She was worshiped particularly at Carchemish and seems to equate with the Hittite goddess SAUSKA. Attributes include pomegranate and mir ror. Also Gubaba, Kupapa.... |
| Goddess name "Liluri" | Syria | Goddess of mountainses who accepted a bull for a sacrifice Syria |
| Goddess name "Liluri" | Western Semitic / Syrian | mountain goddess. The consort of the weather god Manuzi, her sacred animal is the bull.... |
| God name "MOT (death)" | Canaanite / Phoenician / northern Israel, Lebanon / Syrian coastal regions | God of natural adversity. ot is the Canaanite representation of adversity in the natural world. He lives in a pit within the earth and is responsible for its annual death from drought and heat: he has scorched the olive, the produce of the earth and the fruit of the trees. He engages in the clåśśic confrontation with the Canaanite hero and national god, BAAL. Though the duel results in Baal's demise, his death is avenged by his twin sister ANAT, who slays Mot, then cleaves, winnows, burns and grinds him with a millstone, in what appears to be a ritual allied to the sowing of seed and harvesting (see OSIRIS). Baal is later restored. The conflict probably formed the basis of an annual ritual drama at the Canaanite New Year which was held in the autumn. In the texts Mot is the son of Il and his mother is AS'ERAH (ATHIRAT).... |
| God name "Mammon" | Syriac | The god of this world. Mammon was the Syrian god of wealth, similar to Plutus of Greek and Roman mythology. Syriac |
| Goddess name "Manuzi" | Syria | Goddess of mountains, part of the pair with the weather god Syria |
| Goddess name "Manuzi/ Liluri" | Syria | A mountain goddess, part of the pair with the weather god |
| God name "Mlk-Amuklos" | Syria / Palestine / Cyprus | A heroic god known from about 1100 B.C.E. |
| God name "Mutu" | Assyria | Personification of death and the god of the underworld Assyria |
| God name "Nebo" | Assyria | The god of teaching, writing & wisdom and in |
| God name "Nebo" | Assyria | A Chaldean god whose worship was introduced into Assyria by Pul. |
| Goddess name "Nergal" | Assyrian / Babylonian | One of the divinities who ruled the netherworld, a goddess of war & death |
| Goddess name "Nikkal" | Western Semitic / Syrian | moon goddess. The consort of the moon god Jarih and probably evolved from the Mesopotamian pantheon.... |
| Goddess name "Ninkarrak" | Assyria | Goddess of healing. Assyria |
| Goddess name "Ninkigal" | Assyrian | the lady of the great region, goddess worshiped in Babylon. The sister of Ishtar and the wife of the Assyrian Pluto. |
| Goddess name "Nissaba" | Sumeria | Nisaba or Nidaba, goddess of fertility, in particular of the date palm and the reed. In Assyrian times, she came to be regarded as the goddess of writing, learning and astrology. Sumeria |
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